Martin Nikolo, Ph.D.

ProfessorPhysics

Office Hours

M,W: 2-2:30 p.m.

Education

B.S. in Physics, University of Virginia, 1984M.E. in Engineering Physics, University of Virginia, 1985M.S. in Physics, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1987Ph.D. Physics, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1991

9. Missey, M.J. and Nikolo, M., “Ac susceptibility of high-Tc superconductors as a
function of temperature, ac magnetic field and its frequency”, Proceedings of the
3rd Undergraduate Science Symposium at Argonne National Lab, Chicago, Nov. (1992).

Honors and Awards

2014: $25,000 President’s Research Fund Award.

1994: Saint Louis University Young Researcher Award. This is a university-wide award
presented by the President of Saint Louis University.

Mark Missey and Martin Nikolo, 1992 student/faculty winner of the prestigious $2500
Council on Undergraduate Research Fellowship, one of 15 winners out of 160 student/faculty
proposals from around the country.

Stephen Braun and Martin Nikolo, 1995 student/faculty winner of the prestigious $2500
Council on Undergraduate Research Fellowship, one of 15 winners out of over 200 student/faculty
proposals from around the country.

Echols Scholar at the University of Virginia.

Referee for a number of scientific journals such as for Physica C, IEEE Transactions
on Applied Superconductivity, Superconductor Science and Technology, and American
Journal of Physics.

Invited talks at Oxford University and Imperial College in United Kingdom.

Several invitations to the Gordon Research Conferences. The primary criteria for attendance
at a Conference are scientific accomplishment. Attendance is limited to about 100
participants from around the world. This is an expression of professional recognition
by internationally renowned scientists.

475 worldwide citations of research publications reported by Google Scholar.

Selected to chair a superconductivity session Q48 at the American Physical Society
national meeting in Denver, Colorado, on March, 2014.

Referee for a number of scientific journals such as for Physica C, IEEE Transactions
on Applied Superconductivity, Superconductor Science and Technology, and American
Journal of Physics.

Invited talks at Oxford University and Imperial College in United Kingdom.

Several invitations to the prestigious Gordon Research Conferences. The primary criteria
for attendance at the Conference are scientific accomplishment and merit. Attendance
is limited to about 100 participants from around the world. This is an expression
of professional recognition by internationally renowned scientists.

Several US universities (Harvard, Rice, University of Florida, etc.) use one of Nikolo's
papers describing the theory and application of ac susceptibility measurements (American
J. Physics, 63, 57 (1995)), as a key reference in their advanced undergraduate labs.
Some professors described it as “the clearest account of the measurement method available
in the literature”. Many researchers have cited it as a key reference in their ac
susceptometer design. Nikolo is considered an authority on ac susceptibility measurements.
Googling “M. Nikolo, ac susceptibility” gives over 1200 results.